The Arab village of al-Marj in 1911 by Edouard AldahdahPosted onMay 10, 2015May 10, 2015 This Arab (ie, Bedouin, not Egyptian peasant) village was right next to Lady Anne’s Sheykh Obeyd property. The photo was taken in 1911. Today it is a sprawling informal, poverty-stricken suburb of Cairo, home to around a million people.